Trump is the symptom, not the disease
Description
Moshik Temkin is the author of The Sacco-Vanzetti Affair: America on Trial, and Warriors, Rebels, and Saints: The Art of Leadership from Machiavelli to Malcolm X, based on a course which he taught at Harvard University for over a decade. He is currently Distinguished Visiting Professor of Leadership and History at Schwarzman College, Tsinghua University.
In the podcast, we discuss:
* Defining leadership beyond the Great Men
* Senators Wayne Morse and Ernest Gruening—whose names few remember, the lone dissenters against the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
* Trump as a product of historical and socio-economic forces, a symptom of the disease
* The rise of authoritarianism in America
* Why historical analogies can be weak toolst o understand contemporary politics; the constructive use of comparisons
* The Democratic Party’s problems and inability to unite behind Mamdani
* Local resistance against authoritarianism
* Surveillance and control around the world
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